What are SetUp and TearDown?

• Katalon Studio supports the SetUp and Teardown methods, which are groups of your own defined test steps before or after executing a Test Suite. This feature is another useful extension besides Test Listeners to extend your current testing flow as much as possible.

Enable SetUp and TearDown

• You need to set skipped value from true to false to activate related methods.

Example

• I create a Test Suite which has 2 Test Cases: TC1_Verify Successful Login, TC2_Verify Successful Appointment. Each of them has steps WebUI.openBrowser and WebUI.closeBrowser

• To avoid repeat these steps when executing a Test Suite, I simply change

  from skipped = true into skipped = false​. Also, I input scripts openBrowser, closeBrowser for @Setup and @Teardown. The scenario will be like this:

1. Open browser

2. Execute TC1

3. Execute TC2

4. Close browser

• ​@SetupTestCase and @TearDownTestCase have a similar way with @Setup and @TearDown​ to enable them, just changing fromskipped = true into skipped = false​. But this feature will apply for each of Test Case in a Test Suite

• I simply println() sentences to demonstrate the behaviour as below:

TC1:

TC2:

The following workflow can be used to better visualize how Katalon Studio execute test automation projects with/ without setUp and tearDown methods.
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Please also refer to this document and videos:

• Test Fixtures and Test Listeners (Test Hooks)
• Setup/ Teardown Test Suite
• Improve a automation basic test case: Setup & Teardo